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Lucas Löffler · Public domain

Landmark Americas wonder

Antelope Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Narrow slot canyon in Arizona with flowing sandstone walls sculpted by flash floods over millennia

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Antelope Canyon on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
Archaic Amerindian hunter-gatherers (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
Desert hunter-gatherers (1500 BCE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
Anasazi (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE–1400 CE)
Hopitutskwa (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
No border recorded here in this snapshot (1500 CE)
Southern Paiute (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
Vice-Royalty of New Spain (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
United States (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined

Border precision

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Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Americas

Chichen Itza

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Caral 1700 BCE Poverty Point 1200 BCE Ha'amonga 'a Maui 1100 BCE Pulemelei Mound 900 BCE Chavín de Huántar 600 BCE Tikal

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing

Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons

Antelope Canyon Lucas Löffler · Public domain
Chichen Itza Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0
Flag of Canada (Pantone) Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
Machu Picchu Draceane · CC BY-SA 4.0
Flag of Mexico Omar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain